Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-03

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FAuILItG TALKS 40 81.
BY g. MEEKER
WRITTEN FOR THE POST -IsTELLIoKSCER-l
remember once my father and mo
Their making a trip from indianapolis
% Cincinnati, a distance Of little over
ahundred miles. The notes Of prepaF-
alton sounded in our household full
three weeks before the final start then
We all assembled 70 say gOod-by, re-
eeiye the last admonition as to our de-
pertinent while they were gone, and
their benediction. They were gone
tgo weeks. and Oh the return trip
brought with them a thousand dollars
in silver. hauled in their covered wagon
from Butler county, Ohio, 10 Iudianap
oils. Whether there were any such
thing- a. banks convenient 10 furnish
exchange, or whether they wouldn't
trust them, according % the then
current phrase, never knew Certain
il is. they brought the silver, kept it in
a box about the house, a constant
source Of anxiety to mother, until it
was paid out for land purchased.
On Saturday afternoon | concluded
to 20 to New York Monday morning
found me IN the car, and now, in less
than three days. am more than thou
sand miles from home, ia week time
will have trayersed the continent from
Orean % ocean, three thousand miles
and very nearly by the time the reader
sill have seen this ia PRINT will have
returned, not missing a meal or an
hours sleep. One can hardly realize
the great change wrought in our hab-
is opportunities and aspirations dur
ing the period Of d common lifetime.
Al the time / first mentioned, father
though an excellent miller, worked
eighteen hours day for $50 month,
and had done so in the same mill Tor
three years had worked for first
four, then Eve, and finally WAS able TO
say. exultingly, six dollars month,
and had laid up money 70 buy land
IN my dreams. When mother got her
first cook stove, il was an event ia
our iANilttks anu VII NAs+a7 NAaAAAN AAA
Ia seq IL The building u the first
railroad (which, in fact, was only a
tramwayl 10 indianapolis was looked
anon with disfavnr by many good peo-
NE What would the tcamsters do
Where would they sell their hay, now
that the hotels on the road would need
he elo4ed2 The 0lacksmlths and wag-
ON makers would be- out of employ
ment. and "A thousand other dire re
suits we're to spring from the building
OF the railroad
Before leaving home had the next
number nearly ready, and SO, hy the
help OF steam, with plenty of leisure,
the next will be forthcoming In time,
a. / hope 10 visit the great dairy region
of New York slip over into some oi
their hop yards and see how the roots
have wintered and try TO tell our circle
ot friends all about what ! have seen
aud think have learned.
A correspondent wants me 81 give
him a description OF the band wheel
hoe" mentioned some weeks ago in the
Talks" Nv ilicgible scrawl was
priuted band wheel hoe, when |
meant to say hand wheel hoe" ANY
way. that is what | have and what
thiS correspondent wants % know
about and how 30 make lt for three
dollars
First make i4-inch wooden wheel
ut r., inch lumber; a light frame SIS
feet long u inches Wide AZ the end
used as handles and Is inches where She
wheel runs IL inches from the wheel
plare the stirrup the perpendicular
uarts 20 through the frame the lower
or horizontal part shaped like the blade
uf drawing knife tout Of Wurn-out
hlei rests upon the ground, and. - the
frame is pushed forward, Shaves OF
the surface of the ground and eau be
made tn follow the surface closely By
raising or lowering the back end ol the
frauleA< IL is trundled over the ground
duuot say this is a perfect tool, bat IL
/, cheap and also speedy 81 operate.
The blade Of the knife should be l.
inches long With such an implement
Ne often run over an acre a day aud
more. twice IN the row where Is inches
apart OF course. this is only Tor sur
face cultivation.
Eggs took a tumble ia the market
40 Portland. last week. and dim stop
until they got down 60 II cents doar
EN- ~alA a dealti t' i''
! thought Of some eggs the 'hii,iIet
brought uP for US To Try e'liy = NsY :.
or so ago which they hia PFs'h,'d
rscat months before. 1 ATE 9t mem
and Avyiaret then tilat oHf i'ttv
WH8F ENlAs circle ot iFlShaN must
know hoN 20 do likewise. These eggs
at six months after laying down
we're SAB near Ike fresh iaaA oss> ttla' ~
would have taken very NuAlP 'AS
AMI sensitive palate 20 nave n''' 'eA
Rae difference Here Is i"" 9" "' H.
Take
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quarts lSme,
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